Once upon a time, you were able to ask guests to observe certain behavior while in your home. Please take off your shoes, leave your handgun in the car, don't bring recreational drugs into my home... I really don't see what the difference is in asking a guest to not record or even to leave their Google Glasses at home or in the car.

Footprint would be a huge issue in my case, and I don't think it's all that special. Last I checked, you can get a terabyte 2.5 inch 'conventional' notebook drive for under a hundred dollars. That should be plenty of space for a DVR - the point of which is to catch up on missed episodes, not long-term storage of mass quantities of video. Having limited physical space shouldn't constrain me to have limited digital space too! (Hurray apartment dwelling.)

It's been my experience that generated code is fully 70% of what's wrong with most of the COBOL code I encounter. Hand-crafted COBOL is beautiful in a way. Generated COBOL is a nightmare.

Perhaps you should try a more modern distro, like Slackware.

But seriously, why should Valve build against a glibc that was released a year and a half ago?

BINGO!

It's an inversion of the math, somewhat like the absolute value of a number decreasing the closer you get to zero, no matter if you approach it from positive or negative infinity.

The main interesting draw of this for me was its inherent upgradeability. Yes, $500 will buy me a PC that will run most games... today. What about two years out? What about four years out? Five? If OnLive had been handling that on their side, that could have been a very, very interesting proposal if I could keep that $500 pc for five or ten years without missing out on the latest games.

I read 'over reliance on compensatory measures' as needing their paychecks too badly... Now if you'll excuse me, I have bills to pay.

If it doesn't handle your use case (which isn't really all that non-standard - the most common use-case for multiple monitors is laptops with external monitors) without third-party software, it's not really flawless.

Congratulations, Windows 7 with specialized third-party software handles multiple monitors flawlessly!

Given the utterly dismal record of Facebook the company when it comes to the privacy of its users, I wouldn't bother allowing access. Not only do you have your users to worry about, you have external Facebook users and Facebook itself - that sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Aren't we due for a reset of our privacy settings to 'Everything shared with everyone' any day now?

July 16, 1993: Patrick Volkerding releases Slackware 1.00. 16 August, 1993: Ian Murdock announces that he wants to create a distro called Debian. No code is forthcoming. 15 September, 1993: Debian 0.01 ALPHA is 'released'. 17 October, 1993: Debian 0.02 ALPHA is 'released'. 02 November, 1993: Debian 0.03 ALPHA is 'released'. 05 November, 1993: Slackware 1.1.0 is released. 07 November, 1993: Debian 0.04 ALPHA is 'released'. 23 November, 1993: Debian 0.80 BETA is 'released' (limited beta). 28 November, 1993: Debian 0.81 BETA is 'released' (limited beta). 26 January, 1994: Debian 0.90 BETA is 'released' (public beta). 29 January, 1994: Debian 0.91 BETA is 'released' (public beta). I keep hearing this 'only by a matter of weeks' line. It looks to me like the first public 'release' of Debian occurred in January of 1994, six months after the first release of Slackware. Or does anyone want to argue that Duke Nukem Forever came out in 1997? Note that I'm giving Debian the benefit of the doubt here, by calling a 'public beta' a 'public release'.

And Blu-ray players were $700-$1000.

Or maybe they did some things differently, and that's how they got to BE the uber wealthy? But no, cause and effect can't possibly have any bearing on reality. That would be silly.

If it's a setup, then why on God's Green Earth can't Rep. Weiner "Say with certitude" that the picture is not of him?